I'm guessing this episode is about the legendary water-powered automobile.

The title sounds a bit like the book "Like Water for Chocolate," a Mexican love story by Laura Esquivel. (It's actually really good.) That's what the title reminds me of, anyway.

That's most likely the point, trekkerxphile. Just like the X-Files "The Unnatural" is a play on "The Natural".

The wording of the title is a play on "Like Water for Chocolate" but the meaning of the words probably means that the ep will be about the mythical water power car that "THEY" don't want you to have.

the mythical water power car that "THEY" don't want you to have.

Well, *THEY* don't!

I tryed powering my car with water once.

Long story short, it spent a week in the shop and I spent a lot of money. :-)

There is no "They" , "they" is a myth , and urban legend , there never has been a "they" and there never will be a "they"

Or so the Germans would have us think.

There is no "They" , "they" is a myth , and urban legend , there never has been a "they" and there never will be a "they"

That's what *THEY* want you to think.

Actually *WE* have *OUR* HQ in the non-existant town of Bi*l*f*ld, Germany. And please don't pay attention to the black van over there. Thank you.

Just for the record I did not mean to imply that I believe that "they" are trying to keep a car that runs on water a secret. I was just saying what I think the show will be about, not that I really believe it.

Well, you should! *THEY* are everywhere, trying to keep the ordinary people under control!

And of course, by *THEY*, you are referring to the Illuminati. (Either that, or the Perrier people....)

Either that or MJ12

Actually, MJ12 is part of the Illuminati. Area 51 isn't really just a hangar where an alien spacecraft is being stored; its also the Illuminati's headquarters (with their backup offices under the Chrysler building)!

well, moving on from goofy-ness to nitpicking. Tonight's episodes was pretty good. The ending with them not going public about the car just didn't sit right. But hey, I guess they couldn't have that happen if the show was going to continue. I mean it wouldn't be nearly as funny to watch Langley siphon water as gas. :-)

But really, would a water based car be that horrible? Besides, it has more practice applications than just cars, having a water-based engine would a great benefit to all kinds of things. Cheap or free power, cleaner air...

For that matter who cares if it turns the world upside down and changes everything. If Edison and the others destroyed thier inventions because it could change the world we wouldn't be much worse off?

Okay, that's enough of me ranting about why because we can do something, we should do something.

Also, the opening sequence was hilarious.

I don't get what's so bad about a water powered automobile... Mrs. Miser hit the nail on the head when she said it wouldn't be the downfall of the oil companies because so many other things rely on oil to be created like the asphalt and the other things she mentioned. So why is ol Hoof to the Head out to destroy it?

The flat tire/van in the creek sequence was priceless though... still had it's nits though (like there was no way in heck Jimbo coulda done it) but more to the point, you don't jack up your car/truck THEN take off the tire... anyone that has fixed a flat knows that you loosen the lugnuts, THEN jack the car up... otherwise the tire would just spin while you try to loosen the lugnuts.

Btw who else thought that the water powered car would be the next Lone Gun-mobile?

Poor Langly... he just keeps getting the raw end of the deal. First he gets duct tape ripped from his face, then swallows gas and later vomits it back up, then tonight he gets intimate with a cow and next week he gets wee wee-ed on by a infant.

I'm still gray on Yves Del Harlow... is she a good guy or a bad guy?

Moleculo, huh? Good try, Conan O'Brien!

Maagic, don't forget that Langly had all that hard work he put into with his videogame go to hell when Frohike pulled the plug. I doubt it but can you really piece back together a shredded paper on a computer instead of wasting hours doing it? And didja ever notice that the trio got a new shredder on the exact same day that they just happened to also get that document about the water-powered car? It's like watching a Bond film. He always gets all these new gadgets that he just happens to have a chance to use for his latest missions, like a laser in his watch, a high powered one-man water craft or missiles in his car and so on.

The opening was great! They sure picked the right kids for those parts, although I did wonder why would the young Langly have a computer out in the barn, of all places? A laptop, maybe, if they had them then but then there wasn't any internet access yet, either, except maybe for between some businesses or colleges, and even then it was really mostly only email, wasn't it?

When Jimbo was about to lift the van you just knew that it would tip over, especially considering how conveniently its tire blew (or was shot out) right next to a ditch with water in it. And of course you had to see it coming that they just happened to not have a jack, either! I mean, how much room would it take up? Puh-leeze. I also wondered just how badly damaged their equipment was when the van tipped over.

But I still liked this ep. I thought there'd only be 3, but I guess there will be a few more.

I loved Jimmy's voiceovers about "President" Churchill and the Indian leader Gandhi, or as they prefer to be called "Native Americans."

LOL!!!!

I enjoyed this one, though I'm starting to really dislike Harlow. Her "character" seems to change to suit the situation.

I don't really mind Harlow's "character," per se--what I dislike is the fact she's basically just a plot device to give the LG information, and move the show along at convenient times without having the LG do any actual work.

The Oil Company Man was NOT out to destroy the car, he just wanted to be the first Evil Oil Company Dude to find it, so he could make big bucks by being apparently the Water Car King or something like that.

I won't go into detail, but um.. yes it is possible to reconstruct a shredded document as long as it is in strips and not the confetti kind.

I find it surprising that these high tech guys don't have a battery backup on their computers incase of... er.. power outages. Apparently Langley did not save his game like a good little geek.

Do they usually have public demonstrations of silos being destroyed? Also why was Jimmy trying to dig the guys out? Surely he's aware that the rubble extends hundreds of feet straight down in addition to being many feet thick although the rubble wouldn't have stayed in a mound at the top like that. It would probably have settled a good bit leaving a large hole.

Why did the Evil Oil Dude kill the A-hole FOI dude? (aside from him being a a-hole, that is). if he wanted to know where Yves was going, why not, oh I don't know... FOLLOW HER?

He was killed so we could we could have the guilty pleasure of laughing at the guy's tie being caught in the stamper.

I find it surprising that these high tech guys don't have a battery backup on their computers incase of... er.. power outages. Apparently Langley did not save his game like a good little geek.

DISCLAIMER: I DIDN'T SEE THE EPISODE!

That said, maybe Frohike unplugged the computer from the UPS, and not the UPS from the wall...

Did anybody else think the Evil Oil Company Man looked a lot like:

(a) Terry Moran, the ABC news guy that covers President Bush

or

(b) a younger Geoffrey Palmer, the British actor that makes a living out of playing stodgy stiff-upper-lip dudes

Great episode, but yeah why not release the motor, it's not as if the motor is only any use in cars, it would have provided cheap electricity (generators) to run desalination plants etc.. and any of a million possible uses, the car being probably the least interesting of all.

I doubt it but can you really piece back together a shredded paper on a computer instead of wasting hours doing it?

I won't go into detail, but um.. yes it is possible to reconstruct a shredded document as long as it is in strips and not the confetti kind. - Maagic

I only wondered where they got this program from that they used. But on second thought, for somebody after secret information, restoring shredded documents can be useful.

Though I wonder why the lone gunman themselves don't use a more sophisticated shredder to make sure nobody spies on their stuff.

---Sidebar: There exist several programs that can restore shredded documents. Some years ago there was some discussion in germany about the best way to get the shredded secret documents from the Stasi (the east german secret service) back together again (shredded in the last days of the east german republic), and the shameful outcome (last I heard) was that using a computer program they would be done in 5 to 10 years, so the documents would still have a value, but it would cost half a million marks, which the budget didn't allow for. Using normal employees and doing it by hand, they would be done in about 125 years, but because of budget, that's the only way to do it. ---End of sidebar